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python-3.xdatedatetime
Siddhesh Agarwal
Siddhesh Agarwal

Reputation: 189

getting today's and yesterday's date

I want a code snippet that give today's date and yesterday's date in YYYY-MM-DD format. I know how to extract the current date and here is the code for it:

import datetime
cur_date = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

But I do not know how to extract the previous day's date. Is manipulating the current date the only method to do so?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3595

Answers (1)

Girish
Girish

Reputation: 376

You can do it using timedelta :

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
yesterday = datetime.today() - timedelta(days=1)

Output will be :

datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 26, 20, 27, 25, 849797)

Upvotes: 3

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